The Big Man
“They give a sense of being consecrated places, devoted to a purpose which, whether you agree with it or not, forcibly impresses you with its intensity. Churches, of course, can be such buildings. Stock exchanges are, and so is a boxing gymnasium.
The gym at Ingram Street in Glasgow is like that. To see it still and empty may remind you of the small mysteries that move at the edge of our assumptions, the bafflements that haunt the commonplace. The ring that takes up so much of the small room see...ms such an arbitrary structure with its canvas floor and its taped ropes. Yet it dominates the dialectic of the room like an irrefutable premise, a bleak, simplistic statement the point of which is the abjuration of words. To duck under those ropes is to forswear equivocation or paraphrase, is to endorse brute fact.
The rest of the room is merely an antechamber to the ring. For those who want to go within the ropes, it offers a series of mystifying exercises by which they may believe in their fitness to go there.MoreLess
The gym at Ingram Street in Glasgow is like that. To see it still and empty may remind you of the small mysteries that move at the edge of our assumptions, the bafflements that haunt the commonplace. The ring that takes up so much of the small room see...ms such an arbitrary structure with its canvas floor and its taped ropes. Yet it dominates the dialectic of the room like an irrefutable premise, a bleak, simplistic statement the point of which is the abjuration of words. To duck under those ropes is to forswear equivocation or paraphrase, is to endorse brute fact.
The rest of the room is merely an antechamber to the ring. For those who want to go within the ropes, it offers a series of mystifying exercises by which they may believe in their fitness to go there.MoreLess
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